decorative
AdjectiveUS[dek-ruh-tiv]/ˈdɛkrətɪv/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose“cosmetic fenders on cars”“the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative”Synonyms: cosmeticornamentalOpposite functionalSimilar nonfunctional
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Translations
Adjective that serves to decorate
- Spanish
- decorativo
- French
- décoratif
- German
- dekorativ
- Italian
- decorativo
- Portuguese
- decorativo
- Turkish
- dekoratif
- Russian
- декорати́вный dekoratívnyj
- Dutch
- decoratief
- Polish
- dekoracyjny
- Swedish
- dekorativ
10 more languages
- Greek
- διακοσμητικός diakosmitikós
- Indonesian
- dekoratif
- Hungarian
- dekoratív
- Portuguese (PT)
- decorativo
- Catalan
- decoratiu
- Czech
- ozdobný
- Danish
- dekorativ
- Finnish
- koristeellinen
- Norwegian
- dekorativ
- Romanian
- decorativ
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dec′o·ra·tive (dĕk′ō-rȧ-tĭv or dĕk′ō-rā-tĭv), adjective
Origin: Cf. F. décoratif.
Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. — Dec′wb-a1′>′o·ra·tive·ness, noun
Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54